Babcock v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 497 · 1989
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Miller v. Gammie (2003), Snell
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Carnegie v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in connection with, and incident to, ongoing child dependency proceedings.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ ]serve the broader public interest in having participants [in contested child protection cases] ... perform their respective functions without fear of having to defend their actions in a civil lawsuit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deprive the court of information it needs”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.